EAS Systems

Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) systems have been proven to protect your merchandise against shoplifters. Small security tags, applied to high-theft merchandise, alert retailers when shoplifters try to take stolen items through electronic sensors at exit doors.

Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) is an anti-theft system that protects merchandise from illicit removal from a retail establishment. An EAS system has three basic components: 1.) tags - electronic sensors that are attached to merchandise; 2.) deactivators and detachers - used to remove or deactivate the tags; and 3.) systems that detect the tags at store exits.

The EAS process begins by attaching tags to merchandise. When an item is purchased, the tag is removed or deactivated. If merchandise with an active label or hard tag is carried past the detection system, the alarm sounds.

Labels Etc. Inc. is a Checkpoint Systems Authorized Reseller. Please call 800-346-8191 if you have any questions about a new system, upgrading your existing system or need to re-order tags, labels, or accessories.

$9 billion of thefts are committed by non-professionals.

27% of shoplifters are habitual repeat offenders who steal on a daily or weekly basis.

Shoplifters steal an average of 1.6 times per week.

Each shoplifter steals an average of $4600 in merchandise per year.

Shoplifters say they are caught an average of 1 in 48 times they steal.

Of the 200 million shoplifting incidents each year, only 2 million shoplifter apprehensions occur each year.